Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 01:07:39 -0400 From: Joshua Fielden <shaggy@lazy.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Doug Lo <jwlo@ms11.hinet.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Warning message, what does it mean? Message-ID: <3420B71B.415273F1@lazy.org> References: <3421E6FC.3C97F979@ms11.hinet.net> <19970919134926.56921@lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 10:44:12AM +0800, Doug Lo wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When I boot FreeBSD, I got a warning message as below: > > > > mountmsdosfs(): Warning: root directory is not a multiple of the > > clustersize in length. > > > > Would anyone tell me what it means? > > Well, the immediate meaning is obvious. > > > Should I notice it? > > Bearing in mind the flaky condition of msdosfs, I'd be very careful. > I don't know if things have improved, since I don't use Microsoft, but > there were times when anomalies in the file system structure could > cause msdosfs to overwrite not only its own partition, but also > neighbouring ones. If you must mount the file system, do it > read-only, at least until somebody more knowledgeable than I tells you > that the coast is clear. > > Greg I got this after I used "FIPS" to shrink a DOS partition to install BSD. It's got to ddo with the trick of fooling the drive into shrinking the partition but not recalculating clusters. <so you don't need to reformat> If you used Partition Magic, FIPS, etc to shrink a DOS partition, I wouldn't worry too much. -- This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual life-threatening emergency, we would have fled in terror, and you would not have been informed. -- Joshua Fielden, Systems Administrator, GeoCities http://www.geocities.com jfielden@geocities.com
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